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... concerned with analytic functions , notably with the analytic continuation of a Taylor series . Although Karl Weierstrass and Charles Méray were the first to define the meaning that must be attributed to the domain of existence of the ...
... concerned with analytic functions , notably with the analytic continuation of a Taylor series . Although Karl Weierstrass and Charles Méray were the first to define the meaning that must be attributed to the domain of existence of the ...
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... concerned with the energy released in fission and played no part in the German atomic bomb and reactor project during World War II . In- stead , he devoted most of his efforts to the study of fission fragments . When the chemical ...
... concerned with the energy released in fission and played no part in the German atomic bomb and reactor project during World War II . In- stead , he devoted most of his efforts to the study of fission fragments . When the chemical ...
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... concern . He claimed to be the first to give public lectures in " the olde imperfectly com- posed , and the new lately reformed Map , Globes , Spheares , and other instruments of this Art . . . , ” and he was among those consulted by ...
... concern . He claimed to be the first to give public lectures in " the olde imperfectly com- posed , and the new lately reformed Map , Globes , Spheares , and other instruments of this Art . . . , ” and he was among those consulted by ...
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... concerned in escape from submarines , the operations of midget submarines , and much other underwater work . For considerable periods Haldane and a band of personally recruited colleagues , in- cluding his future second wife , Helen ...
... concerned in escape from submarines , the operations of midget submarines , and much other underwater work . For considerable periods Haldane and a band of personally recruited colleagues , in- cluding his future second wife , Helen ...
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... concern . But the mechanics of blood circula- tion seemed to interest him less than the total respi- ratory process , although he did devise a method for estimating cardiac output . Along the way he made many useful digressions and , by ...
... concern . But the mechanics of blood circula- tion seemed to interest him less than the total respi- ratory process , although he did devise a method for estimating cardiac output . Along the way he made many useful digressions and , by ...
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Page 43 - ... all sensation is excited, and the members of animal bodies move at the command of the will,- — -namely, by the vibrations of this Spirit, mutually propagated along the solid filaments of the nerves, from the outward organs of sense to the brain, and from the brain into the muscles.
Page 279 - Rhees, ed., The Smithsonian Institution: Documents Relative to Its Origin and History, 1835-1899, 2 vols.
Page 39 - Vapour, which is a sort of Air, and by cold into Ice, which is a hard, pellucid, brittle, fusible Stone; and this Stone returns into Water by Heat, and Vapour returns into Water by Cold. Earth by Heat becomes Fire, and by Cold returns into Earth. Dense Bodies by Fermentation rarify into several sorts of Air, and this Air by Fermentation, and sometimes without it, returns into dense Bodies.24 The Aristotelian character of this passage need hardly be pointed out.
Page 284 - MEDICAL SERIES. No. I. SKETCHES OF THE LIVES AND WORK OF THE HONORARY MEDICAL STAFF OF THE ROYAL INFIRMARY. From its foundation in 1752 to 1830, when it became the Royal Infirmary.
Page 54 - Description d'une suite d'expériences qui montrent comment la compression peut modifier l'action de la chaleur (Geneva, 1807).
Page 133 - Wound Healing and Reconstitution of the Central Nervous System of the Amphibian Embryo After Removal of Parts of the Neural Plate," in Journal of Experimental Zoology, 106 (1947), 27-84.
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Page 58 - The Two-fold Slavery of the United States: With a Project of Self-Emancipation (London, 1854).
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Page 286 - Jahresbericht der Kommission zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der deutschen Meere in Kiel für das Jahr 1871 (1873), pp. 155-159; "Resultate der statistischen Beobachtungen über die Fischerei an den deutschen Küsten...